Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Adyar Library, Vol. 1: Theosophical Society The adyar library opens the Descriptive Catalogue of its Sanskrit mss. With the volume on Upanisad literature, because this volume is wanted at present as the necessary basis of a work now under preparation, viz., a critical edition and translation of the more important of the so-called Minor Upanisads. The two largest collections of Upanisad mss. Of which catalogues have been published are, in the West, that of the India Office in London with 356 numbers (copies) and 144 works (titles), and, in India, the collection of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras, with 607 numbers and 183 works. The collection described in this volume comprises 1322 numbers distributed among 365 works, and of the latter the following have not been described before or not been properly described, those marked with an asterisk appearing herewith for the first time* (the numbers in brackets after the names refer to the pages of the present work) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.